Re: [Plplot-devel] install now puts files in /usr/lib regardless of prefix

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-02-18 08:52]:

> OCTAVE_M_DIR = /usr/share/octave/site/m
> OCTAVE_OCT_DIR = /usr/lib/octave/2.0.16.92/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Rafael, this is a bad result.  It means nobody can try plplot without having
> root privilege, and once you have made such an install it is non-trivial to
> un-install.  (With my normal prefix of /usr/local/plplot_at,
> 
> rm -rf /usr/local/plplot_at/*
> 
> is a wonderfully simple way to uninstall....;-)) Also, ignoring the install
> prefix seems to go against the design philosophy of autotools where every
> effort seems to be made to honor the installation prefix.
> 
> Please change to
> 
> $prefix/share/octave/site/m
> and
> $prefix/lib/octave/2.0.16.92/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu

This problem has already been detected by Joao, and I worked in a fix since
yesterday evening.  During the day today, I ran some experiements to be sure
that things work.  At any rate, this is fixed and cvs committed.

At any rate, I have been aware of the problem from the very beginning, and I
do not need a long and tedious course on "How $prefix is useful and
wonderful" :-)

-- 
Rafael